It became a major blockbuster at $65.5 million (on a budget of $13.3 million, making it the most expensive film made-to-date), and as of 2022, it was the # 6 film of all-time in terms of gross (domestic) revenue when adjusted by inflation.From its nine nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director),The Defiant Oneswas the recipient of only wo Oscars: Best B/W Cinematography (it marked Sam Leavitt’s only win in his first of three nominations), and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen.A flashbulb pops as the Chief of Police (Marshall Bradford) speaks to Phillip Evans (John Archer, father of film star Anne Archer), a US Treasury Department agent, about the man""s ultimate fate:A couple of hunters found him frozen up in the mountains and we started wondering.Sternwood: I used to like mine with champagne.Champagne cold as Valley Forge and with about three ponies of brandy under it...I like o see people drink...You may take off your coat, sir...Too hot in here for any man who has any blood in his veins.You may smoke, too.I can still enjoy the smell of it.Nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.The emaciated Sternwood describes the dreariness of his existence.The humid hothouse is necessary for his survival and he is waiting for death - the "big sleep" of the title - in the temperature-controlled greenhouse:Sternwood: You are looking, sir, at a very dull survival of a very gaudy life - crippled, paralyzed in both legs, very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it""s hardly worth he name.Khan saved Kirk""s life a second time as they both navigated the dangerous debris field, and entered theVengeancethrough he hangar""s door (Scotty was successful in manually overriding he airlock""s controls on the door, even though confronted by a security guard).